In Denver and cities across the United States, historic train stations are getting a new lease on life. Many are anchoring downtown redevelopment projects as well.
–City Beautiful on YouTube
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The Denver Union Station shown in the video preview is the ultimate irony, because they have blocked access to the station for long-distance trains. At best it requires a time consuming reverse move, with the through tracks long gone. This kind of thing has happened, and is happening all over the country, and many of these expensive projects (East Side Access comes to mind) have compromised designs that require low speeds and actually slow down the top speeds once possible on the existing lines they are intended to supplement and improve. You can’t tell me the people who are devising and promoting these designs to public authorities are not aware of it. Pedestrian access from the Denver station building to a possible passenger interface allowing quick access for long distance trains would involve a gallery on the lines of the Newark, NJ Gateway Center, and might prove to be a viable commercial investment if building continues at the current pace in Denver. But something like that would be dependent on planners informing the public and decisionmakers that the right-of-way and surrounding space needed for platforms to build a station must be preserved.